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gth760x · #1 Post by **gth760x** » Wed Apr 02, 2008 2:04 pm

I have a t42 with a 40GB drive. I have run out of room to put things on the drive and have my music on an external drive, but this is becoming inconvenient. So should I just by a new 2.5" hdd that is bigger and faster or get an ultrabay adapter and put a 30GB drive in there that I already have. If I did the Ultrabay could I just use it to store my music or will it have to have its own OS and run separately. If I got the new hdd I would like to do a fresh install of windows, but I don't have certain software CDs anymore like word etc. Could I do a fresh install of windows and then somehow move some of my software, but it seems this would cause issues. Thanks

mgo · #2 Post by **mgo** » Wed Apr 02, 2008 2:36 pm

gth760x wrote:I have a t42 with a 40GB drive. I have run out of room to put things on the drive and have my music on an external drive, but this is becoming inconvenient. So should I just by a new 2.5" hdd that is bigger and faster or get an ultrabay adapter and put a 30GB drive in there that I already have. If I did the Ultrabay could I just use it to store my music or will it have to have its own OS and run separately. If I got the new hdd I would like to do a fresh install of windows, but I don't have certain software CDs anymore like word etc. Could I do a fresh install of windows and then somehow move some of my software, but it seems this would cause issues. Thanks

No operating system needed for the ultra bay drive. It is a handy place for files and the computer will see it as another drive.

On your other topic, I suggest a 3rd party imaging program to backup your entire system, and then that image can be put back down on a new drive.

#3 Post by **Kyocera** » Wed Apr 02, 2008 2:45 pm

Read through this thread, good tutorial about cloning a drive.
Hard Drive Cloning

chan_man · #4 Post by **chan_man** » Wed Apr 02, 2008 8:37 pm

the ultrabay option can be just storate, no OS needed. Cloning is the best way to upgrade, relatively simple to do.

Another option is just to get an external "portable" USB drive, not the ones that needs a power adapter, get the ones that run solely off USB, these will use the same 2.5" drive. Here is one I found on BUY.com, a WD Passport Portable 320GB USB 2.0 for $135.00

http://www.buy.com/prod/western-digital ... 08584.html

gth760x · #5 Post by **gth760x** » Wed Apr 02, 2008 11:17 pm

The only thing I am worried about with cloning is cloning all the crap that has built up in my computer over the last several years. I figure if I do a clean install of windows it would fix a lot of my problems. However, I'm not sure I can do that since windows came installed and I do not have any disks. Also, I don't remeber if MS office came installed on this computer and I do not have the CD for it.

chan_man · #6 Post by **chan_man** » Thu Apr 03, 2008 2:45 pm

You can get recovery disks for your T40 but not for Office. Check out the Marketplace for the disks.

DrThinkpad · #7 Post by **DrThinkpad** » Thu Apr 03, 2008 9:33 pm

No need of an OS for an Ultrabay HD...
It is perfect is you use your Thinkpad as a desktop replacement

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